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41 envy-inducing lunch box recipes

Make the return to work a little more appetising with midday meals that are anything but mundane.

38 recipes
Neil Perry's tuna, borlotti bean and red onion salad,
EASY

Tuna, borlotti bean and red onion salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Colourful corn salad.
EASY

Grilled sweet corn salad with black beans and almonds recipe

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Caroline Velik
Bento box.

Sesame soba noodles with soy eggs

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Build your own rainbow superbowl.
EASY

The rainbow superbowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Salad in a jar.
EASY

No-cook jar salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Meatball sandwich with hummus and beetroot.
EASY

Meatball sandwich with hummus and beetroot

  • < 30 mins
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Pita wrap with nori, tuna and wasabi dressing
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Pita wrap with nori, tuna and wasabi dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Luke Mangan
Healthy salmon salad.

Brown rice, salmon and pea salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Cold Soba noodles with beansprouts, soy and ginger. Styling by Caroline Velik.
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Cold soba noodles with beansprouts, soy and ginger

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Vietnamese chicken salad

Vietnamese chicken salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
GF. Hot Food. June 11th. Protein Balls. Photo: Edwina Pickles. 28th May 2013.
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Protein balls

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Roast red onion and spelt salad.

Roast onion and spelt salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Panini with ricotta, basil, tomatoes and pinenuts

Panini with ricotta, basil, tomatoes and pinenuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Brigitte Hafner
Potato and onion tortilla.
EASY

Potato and onion tortilla

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Pumpkin and goat's cheese risotto.

Pumpkin and goat's cheese risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Luke Mangan
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Broccoli stem noodles.
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Broccoli stem noodles with snow peas and Japanese dressing

  • < 30 mins
Corned beef, gouda and jalapeno jaffle
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Corned beef, gouda and jalapeno jaffle

  • < 30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
Neil Perry's minestrone with beans and chickpeas.
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Minestrone soup with legumes and bacon

  • 1-2 hrs
Apple, rye and ginger teacake
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Apple, rye and ginger teacake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Apricot and molasses muesli slice.
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Apricot and molasses muesli slice

  • < 30 mins
mac-cheese

Macaroni, bolognese and cheese

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
The Reuben Jaffle.
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Reuben jaffle

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Zucchini flower, wild rice, lentil and yoghurt salad.

Zucchini flower, wild rice, lentil and yoghurt salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
risotto
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Pea, mint and ricotta risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
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French lentil and onion soup. Caroline Velik ONION recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation and styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed July 30, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

French lentil and onion soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Hellenic Republic's popular Cypriot grain salad is packed with protein-packed lentils.
EASY

Hellenic Republic’s Cypriot grain salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Travis McAuley
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Vegetable and bean salad

  • < 30 mins
Tony Tan's Persian pilaff rice.

Addas polow (Persian rice pilaf and lentils)

  • < 30 mins
  • Tony Tan
Cold spicy Sichuan sesame noodles.

Cold spicy Sichuan sesame noodles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Diana Lampe
Raw vegetable salad

Raw vegetable salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jane and Jeremy Strode
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Greek salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Smoked trout and avocado salad
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Smoked trout and avocado salad

  • < 30 mins
  • jane and Jeremy Strode
Recipe image for goodfood.com.au. Lebanese chargrilled chicken wrap (Murdoch Books).
EASY

Lebanese wrap with chargrilled chicken

  • < 30 mins
Green Grocer Wrap
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Green Grocer Wrap

  • < 30 mins
  • Tony Chiodo
Junior sushi roll

Junior sushi rolls

  • < 30 mins
  • Jeremy and Jane Strode
The lamb and mint couscous from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Love Your Leftovers.

From Hugh to Nigella: 5 cooks, 5 lunch boxes

  • Jill Dupleix

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/recipes/work-lunches-20160601-gp91a1.html